In 1941 Belmont married the native-born Italian restaurateur Albert Califano, and in the late 1940s they moved to Rome, where she continued her film career in the Italian industry, starring in a number of melodrama films, while Califano worked as a correspondent for The Hollywood Reporter.[1][2] In the late 1950s she retired from acting and moved back in the U.S., where she was employed by United Airlines as a sales rapresentative.[1]